MARGARINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does margarine mean? 

• MARGARINE (noun)
  The noun MARGARINE has 1 sense:

1. a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter

  Familiarity information: MARGARINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARGARINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

margarin; margarine; marge; oleo; oleomargarine

Hypernyms ("margarine" is a kind of...):

paste; spread (a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes)

Meronyms (substance of "margarine"):

oil; vegetable oil (any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants)

trans fatty acid (a fatty acid that has been produced by hydrogenating an unsaturated fatty acid (and so changing its shape); found in processed foods such as margarine and fried foods and puddings and commercially baked goods and partially hydrogenated vegetable oils)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "margarine"):

stick (a rectangular quarter pound block of butter or margarine)

 Context examples 

Look for trans fat on the labels of processed foods, margarines, and shortenings.

(Nutrition, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Look for trans fat on the labels of processed foods, margarines and shortenings.

(Nutrition for Seniors, NIH: National Institute on Aging)

In addition, children who frequently used vegetable oil-based margarines had less saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids in their blood, which has been shown to be beneficial for health.

(Blood Fatty Acids Reveal Your Child's Diet, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

These are found in vegetable shortenings, some margarines, crackers, cookies, snack foods, and other foods made with or fried in partially hydrogenated oils.

(Dietary Fats, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

The experimental breakfast consisted of the cereal-based bread and a glass of water, while the control group ate a breakfast consisting of sliced white bread (85g), jam (10g) and margarine (2g), and a glass of water.

(Researchers reveal potential of bread that suppresses appetite, University of Granada)

A frequent consumption of vegetable oil-based margarines containing at least 60 per cent fat was associated with higher proportions of the essential polyunsaturated fatty acids, linoleic acids and alpha-linolenic acids in plasma.

(Blood Fatty Acids Reveal Your Child's Diet, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)